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Pigs were removed from 13 places.
Heaps of manure, &c., removed from wharves, mews, &c., in 240 instances.
Other nuisances, not above enumerated, were removed to the number of 18.
In carrying out these improvements, 4609 inspections were made, 860 visits
paid to slaughter-houses, 802 to cow-houses, and the markets visited 441 times.
520 primary notices and 39 final notices were issued.
25 summonses were taken out and heard before the police magistrate, in
consequence of notices being neglected.
There have been seized and destroyed, as unfit for food, 17 pads of plaice,
4 barrels of sprats, 6 pads of mackerel, two trays of soles, 1 sheep, and 143
rabbits, besides a large quantity of rotten apples, oranges, strawberries, plums,
pears, cocoa-nuts, and pine-apples.
At the Special Petty Sessions 99 cowsheds were licensed, and 6 applications
of dairymen for licenses were refused; 97 slaughter-house licenses were
granted, and two applications refused. During the year 4 cow-keepers have
been fined for keeping cows in places not licensed for the purpose.
The bakehouses have been inspected from time to time. They are kept
much cleaner than before the passing of the Act. No infringement of the
Bakehouses Regulation Act has been detected. Wherever the bakehouses
have been found to require whitewashing, the bakers have at once complied
with a notice calling on them to cleanse and whitewash. Owing to their not
having been any inspection during the night, nothing positively is known as
to the employment of boys within the forbidden hours, or as to men sleeping
in the bakehouses.
Owing to the illness and death of Inspector "William Timewell, in September
last, for three months the work of the Sanitary Department was performed
with the help of one inspector only.
During the year a new sewer has been constructed by the Vestry in John
Street, to a length of 1500 feet, and one in Windmill Street of 300 feet. These
streets were previously very badly drained. There are still many streets in
the Parish unsupplied with sewers. The main drainage of London is now
complete, so far as it concerns this Parish ; it is very important that all the
inhabited part of St. Pancras should be able to avail themselves of it. The
north part of Kentish Town up to Highgate stands greatly in need of sewerage ;
there are, amongst other places, Torriano Avenue, King Street, Queen Street,
Little Camden Street, and Warren Street in Camden Town ; in the neighbourhood
of the Gas "Works, besides Ashby Street where a sewer has just been
ordered, Suffolk Street and several shorter streets are almost without sewerage.
It is to be hoped that you will now take into your serious consideration the
provision of sewers for such parts as are not already furnished with good ones,
the abolition of disused sewers and the covering over of sewers in places
where they are left open to the air, as in some of the northern parts of the
Parish. Last year there was an unusually high death-rate in London at large,
and St. Pancras was one of the districts in which the increase of mortality over
that of other years was most marked. A great deal has been done to improve
the dwellings of the poor since the passing of the Metropolis Local Manage-